Bus Carrying Junior High Football Team Crashes Near Pittsburgh, 21 People Hospitalized

Bus Carrying Junior High Football Team Crashes Near Pittsburgh, 21 People Hospitalized
Emergency personnel work at the site of a crash of a bus carrying members of the Aliquippa Junior High School football team in Economy Bourough, Pa., on Aug. 23, 2025. Jessica Riley/KDKA-TV News via AP
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ECONOMY BOROUGH, Pa.—A bus carrying a junior high football team to a game crashed Saturday north of Pittsburgh, sending 21 of the 28 people on board to the hospital, officials said.

Twenty-five Aliquippa Junior High students and three adults were headed to a game in nearby Gibsonia. The crash occurred in Economy Borough, about 20 miles north of Pittsburgh.